The Price We Pay For Fashion?
On this day last year, the 8 storey Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,130 garment workers and injured thousands. The previous day the workers had been sent home after the building had been declared unsafe, but the factory managers persuaded the workers that the building was in fact fine, because they had quotas to meet, and the following day everyone returned to work. It was one of the worst ever tragedies in the history of garment factories yet many of the affected workers and families are still waiting for compensation.
People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, outside Dhaka on April 24 last year. Photograph: © Andrew Biraj/Reuters Taken from: Rana Plaza: one year on from the Bangladesh factory disaster – http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/rana-plaza-bangladesh-one-year-on
There have been a lot of news articles commemorating this disaster over the last few…
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